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Hellyer, Que River
Tasmania, Tas, Australia
Main commodities: Zn Pb Cu Au Ag




The most recent source geological information used to prepare this description was dated: 1999.    
This description is a summary from published sources, the chief of which are listed below.
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Que River

Hellyer

    Selected References
Bishop J R, Lewis R J G  1992 - Geophysical signatures of Australian volcanic-hosted massive sulfide deposits: in    Econ. Geol.   v87 pp 913-930
Corbett K D  1992 - Stratigraphic-volcanic setting of massive sulphide deposits in the Cambrian Mount Read Volcanics, Tasmania: in    Econ. Geol.   v87 pp 564-586
Corbett K D  1981 - Stratigraphy and mineralization in the Mt Read volcanics, western Tasmania: in    Econ. Geol.   v76 pp 209-230
Eastoe C J, Solomon M, Walshe J L  1987 - District-scale alteration associated with massive Sulfide deposits in the Mount Read Volcanics, western Tasmania: in    Econ. Geol.   v82 pp 1239-1258
Gemmell J B, Fulton R  2001 - Geology, genesis, and exploration implications of the footwall and hanging-wall alteration associated with the Hellyer volcanic-hosted massive Sulfide deposit, Tasmania, Australia: in    Econ. Geol.   v96 pp 1003-1035
Gemmell J B, Large R R  1992 - Stringer system and alteration zones underlying the Hellyer volcanic-hosted massive sulfide deposit, Tasmania, Australia: in    Econ. Geol.   v87 pp 620-649
Large R R  1992 - Australian volcanic-hosted massive sulfide deposits: features, styles, and genetic models: in    Econ. Geol.   v87 pp 471-510
Large R R, McGoldrick P J, Berry R F, Young C H  1988 - A tightly folded, Gold-rich, massive Sulfide deposit: Que River mine, Tasmania: in    Econ. Geol.   v83 pp 681-693
Large R R, McPhie J, Gemmell J B, Herrmann W, Davidson G J  2001 - The spectrum of ore deposit types, volcanic environments, alteration halos, and related exploration vectors in submarine volcanic successions: some examples in Australia: in    Econ. Geol.   v96 pp 913-938
McArthur G J, Dronseika E V  1990 - Que River and Hellyer zinc-lead-silver deposit: in Hughes FE (Ed.), 1990 Geology of the Mineral Deposits of Australia & Papua New Guinea The AusIMM, Melbourne   Mono 14, v2 pp 1229-1239
McGoldrick P J, Large R R  1992 - Geologic and geochemical controls on gold-rich stringer mineralization in the Que River deposit, Tasmania: in    Econ. Geol.   v87 pp 667-685
Monecke T, Gemmell J B and Monecke J  2001 - Fractal distributions of veins in drill core from the Hellyer VHMS deposit, Australia: constraints on the origin and evolution of the mineralising system: in    Mineralium Deposita   v36 pp 406-415
Offler R, Whitford D J  1992 - Wall-rock alteration and metamorphism of a volcanic-hosted massive sulfide deposit at Que River, Tasmania: petrology and mineralogy: in    Econ. Geol.   v87 pp 686-705
Schardt C, Cooke D R, Gemmell J B, Large R R  2001 - Geochemical modeling of the zoned footwall alteration pipe, Hellyer volcanic-hosted massive Sulfide deposit, western Tasmania, Australia: in    Econ. Geol.   v96 pp 1037-1054
Solomon M  1981 - An introduction to the geology and metallic ore deposits of Tasmania: in    Econ. Geol.   v76 pp 194-208
Solomon M, Gemmell J B, Khin Zaw  2004 - Nature and origin of the fluids responsible for forming the Hellyer ZnÐPbÐCu, volcanic-hosted massive sulphide deposit, Tasmania, using fluid inclusions, and stable and radiogenic isotopes: in    Ore Geology Reviews   v25 pp 89-124
Solomon M, Eastoe C J, Walshe J L, Green G R  1988 - Mineral deposits and Sulfur isotope abundances in the Mount Read volcanics between Que River and Mount Darwin, Tasmania: in    Econ. Geol.   v83 pp 1307-1328
Solomon M, Gaspar O C  2001 - Textures of the Hellyer volcanic-hosted massive Sulfide deposit, Tasmania - the Aging of a Sulfide sediment on the sea floor: in    Econ. Geol.   v96 pp 1513-1534
Solomon M, Khin Zaw  1997 - Formation on the sea floor of the Hellyer volcanogenic massive sulfide deposit: in    Econ. Geol.   v92 pp 686-695
Solomon M, Zaw K  1997 - Formation on the sea floor of the Hellyer Volcanogenic Massive Sulfide deposit: in    Econ. Geol.   v92 pp 686-695
Waters J C, Wallace D B  1992 - Volcanology and sedimentology of the host succession to the Hellyer and Que River volcanic-hosted massive sulfide deposits, northwestern Tasmania: in    Econ. Geol.   v87 pp 650-666
Waters J C, Wallace D B  1992 - Volcanology and sedimentology of the host sequence to the Hellyer and Que River volcanic-hosted massive sulfide deposits, Northwestern Tasmania: in    Econ. Geol.   v87 pp 650-666
Whitford D J, McPherson W P A, Wallace D B  1989 - Geochemistry of the host rocks of the volcanogenic massive Sulfide deposit at Que River, Tasmania: in    Econ. Geol.   v84 pp 1-21
Zaw K, Gemmell J B, Large R R, Mernagh T P and Ryan C G  1996 - Evolution and source of ore fluids in the stringer system, Hellyer VHMS deposit, Tasmania, Australia: evidence from fluid inclusion microthermometry and geochemistry: in    Ore Geology Reviews   v10 pp 251-278


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